what's Orthogonal?

Orthogonal is a platform providing trusted skills and APIs as modular building blocks for AI agents. It offers a curated library of human-reviewed skills for tasks including data enrichment, web scraping, search, communication, lead generation, and prediction market queries. Developers and agents access hundreds of APIs via Orthogonal's MCP or SDK, eliminating API key management and billing hassles through pay-as-you-go credits. Natural language search enables discovery, such as finding APIs for social media data or company intel, with dynamic routing and retries. The platform addresses API fragmentation for autonomous agents by standardizing tool calling and enabling agentic payments via protocols like x402 and ERC-8004. API providers list once to become discoverable and monetize per request, fostering an agent-native economy. Integrated with frameworks like OpenClaw and Claude, Orthogonal powers reliable agent workflows in the AI agent ecosystem.